I'm in central Europe.
I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.
I sincerely do not understand the problem people have with changing a single hour in a single day during a weekend in the year.
The problems arise when accommodating the change programmatically in code. How many times did Apple fuck this up with the first few versions of the iPhone with alarms not going off at the right time?
2010 https://www.cultofmac.com/67254/how-to-avoid-the-iphone-dayl...
2011 http://osxdaily.com/2011/03/13/iphone-daylight-savings-time-...
2012 http://www.iphonehacks.com/2012/03/iphone-daylight-savings-t...
My biggest question anyway is how we will manage time once we become a multi planet species.
Why can't you eat when you're hungry?
Why can't you go to sleep when it gets dark?
A better way to manage when things should happen is to create a schedule which could be defined in UTC. I don't think the time zones really solve this problem.
For example, I might assume that I can eat dinner when my plane lands in my destination around 8pm. But when I look for a local restaurant, they all close at 8pm because it's a smaller town. I still need to look at the hours of operation for that business.
So I can't really make assumptions based on the local time anyway so why do we need to adjust them.
> how we will manage time once we become a multi planet species.
Excellent question! We would probably need to remove the concept of "days" because that is relative to the current planet.
Mind you. I screw things up. Just did it with a meeting the other day. But with electronic calendaring it’s not too bad.
Added: when traveling, time zones let me change my watch once and I immediately more or less know time appropriate activities that more or less correspond to what I’m used to at home.
I'm in Northern Europe and the early onset of afternoon darkness in winter is too real to not complain about it.
The ritual of DST mostly seems to survive because people are convinced it must be good for something. Otherwise, surely we wouldn't be doing it...
Other than the fact that it's a colossal waste of time for everyone who has to do it, and it kills people? Every year, people will be dead the Tuesday after the time change who would have been alive had the time not changed. Also, of course, it's not a single day — it's twice a year.
> There was a significant increase in accidents for the Monday immediately following the spring shift to DST (t=1.92, P=0.034). There was also a significant increase in number of accidents on the Sunday of the fall shift from DST (P<0.002). No significant changes were observed for the other days. A significant negative correlation with the year was found between the number of accidents on the Saturdays and Sundays but not Mondays.
> There was a significant increase in accidents for the Monday immediately following the spring shift to DST (t=1.92, P=0.034).